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title: Now you see what one gets by doing as one is bid; if it had not been… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now you see what one gets by doing as one is bid; if it had not been for me you would have driven the dog away again, and we should have lost the money. Who acts: you, one, thing, we. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 23

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Now you see what one gets by doing as one is bid; if it had not been for me you would have driven the dog away again, and we should have lost the money.

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**Who acts:** you, one, thing, we · **What happens:** see, get, do, bid, not be, drive away · **To what, where:** one, dog, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, thing, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:39:23
# text = Now you see what one gets by doing as one is bid; if it had not been for me you would have driven the dog away again, and we should have lost the money.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	bid	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux	_	_
34	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bid** | present · passive |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | thing |  |  |  |  | for me | tree rules |
| 6 | **drive away** | would · perfect | you | the dog |  |  | again | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 7 | **lose** | should · perfect | we | the money |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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